Maxim can be categorized as a noun.
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| maxim - a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits | ||
| Maxim - English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916) |
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| 1. | noun | He worked in his favorite maxim. | |
| 2. | noun | Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. | |
| 3. | noun | Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. | |
| 4. | noun | There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. | |
| 5. | noun | The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. | |
| 6. | noun | It is an important maxim, that we ought to be very circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The accusation of these two crimes may be vastly injurious to liberty. | |
| 7. | noun | Always act in such a way that you can also will that the maxim of your action should become a universal law. | |
| 8. | noun | To live in love towards our actions and to let live in the understanding of the other person's will is the fundamental maxim of free human beings. | |
| 9. | noun | To live in love for action and to let live in the understanding of another person's volition is the fundamental maxim of free human beings. | |
| 10. | noun | In short, let it be your maxim through life to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others. This rule has been of infinite service to me in the course of my life. | |
| 11. | noun | However faultlessly these tasks were achieved, she never commended: it was a maxim with her that praise is inconsistent with a teacher's dignity, and that blame, in more or less unqualified measure, is indispensable to it. |
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| He worked in his favorite maxim. | |
| Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. | |
| Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. | |
| There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. | |
| The maxim is so perfectly self-evident that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it. | |
| It is an important maxim, that we ought to be very circumspect in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The accusation of these two crimes may be vastly injurious to liberty. | |
| Always act in such a way that you can also will that the maxim of your action should become a universal law. | |
| To live in love towards our actions and to let live in the understanding of the other person's will is the fundamental maxim of free human beings. | |
| To live in love for action and to let live in the understanding of another person's volition is the fundamental maxim of free human beings. | |
| In short, let it be your maxim through life to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others. This rule has been of infinite service to me in the course of my life. | |
| However faultlessly these tasks were achieved, she never commended: it was a maxim with her that praise is inconsistent with a teacher's dignity, and that blame, in more or less unqualified measure, is indispensable to it. | |